Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 23 11
Rank change year-on-year +10 -12 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 141 59 63
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 12.42% 9.59% 13.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.65% 32.96% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 46 47
10th Percentile £400 £306 £340
25th Percentile £475 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £449 £507
Median % change year-on-year +15.72% -11.54% -7.82%
75th Percentile £669 £516 £614
90th Percentile £688 £569 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 419 179 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 36.92% 29.11% 35.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 136 111
10th Percentile £355 £299 £225
25th Percentile £450 £358 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £468 £507
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% -7.79% -13.70%
75th Percentile £594 £545 £589
90th Percentile £688 £644 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.26%
75th Percentile - - £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £62.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -43.91% +197.14% -1.20%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +8 136 £525 +17.06% 40
Doncaster -8 1 - - 5
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (9.22%) Confluence
2 9 (6.38%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.96%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.42%) Apache
5 2 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.42%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.71%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 68 (48.23%) AWS
2 64 (45.39%) GCP
3 25 (17.73%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (15.60%) GitHub
5 18 (12.77%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (10.64%) Power Platform
7 13 (9.22%) Entra ID
8 10 (7.09%) OpenShift
9 9 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (4.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (3.55%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (3.55%) PowerApps
12 5 (3.55%) Serverless
13 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Copilot
14 3 (2.13%) Azure Storage
14 3 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 3 (2.13%) Datadog
14 3 (2.13%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.38%) Network Security
2 8 (5.67%) Firewall
2 8 (5.67%) SAN
3 3 (2.13%) DNS
3 3 (2.13%) Kerberos
3 3 (2.13%) NAS
4 2 (1.42%) LAN
4 2 (1.42%) Multicast
4 2 (1.42%) VSAN
4 2 (1.42%) WAN
5 1 (0.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.51%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.80%) Power BI
3 9 (6.38%) Big Data
4 6 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.26%) Data Lake
4 6 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.55%) Neo4j
6 4 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.84%) Delta Lake
6 4 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.84%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.13%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.42%) Metadata
8 2 (1.42%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.42%) Redis
8 2 (1.42%) Trino
9 1 (0.71%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.71%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 29 (20.57%) Jenkins
2 19 (13.48%) JIRA
3 12 (8.51%) Git
4 6 (4.26%) GitLab
4 6 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (2.84%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.13%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (2.13%) Fiddler
7 2 (1.42%) Gatling
7 2 (1.42%) JMeter
7 2 (1.42%) MSBuild
7 2 (1.42%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.42%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.71%) Gradle
8 1 (0.71%) JUnit
8 1 (0.71%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.71%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.71%) Newman
8 1 (0.71%) Postman
8 1 (0.71%) REST Assured
General
1 50 (35.46%) Social Skills
2 49 (34.75%) Finance
3 22 (15.60%) Banking
4 13 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.26%) Financial Institution
5 6 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (4.26%) Law
6 5 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.84%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.13%) Legal
9 2 (1.42%) Billing
9 2 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (19.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (19.15%) Lead
3 21 (14.89%) Architect
4 11 (7.80%) Developer
5 8 (5.67%) Cloud Architect
6 7 (4.96%) Consultant
6 7 (4.96%) Lead DevOps
6 7 (4.96%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 7 (4.96%) Security Engineer
6 7 (4.96%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 6 (4.26%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.26%) Data Engineer
7 6 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (4.26%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (3.55%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 5 (3.55%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.35%) REST
2 9 (6.38%) .NET
3 8 (5.67%) Kafka
3 8 (5.67%) OAuth
4 7 (4.96%) ASP.NET
4 7 (4.96%) OpenID
5 6 (4.26%) AngularJS
5 6 (4.26%) PySpark
5 6 (4.26%) SailPoint
5 6 (4.26%) SAML
6 5 (3.55%) .NET Core
6 5 (3.55%) JSON
6 5 (3.55%) React
6 5 (3.55%) Web Services
7 4 (2.84%) FIDO
7 4 (2.84%) LDAP
7 4 (2.84%) OAuth2
8 3 (2.13%) SLSA
8 3 (2.13%) SOAP
8 3 (2.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.93%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (9.22%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (7.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (6.38%) Data Centre
6 8 (5.67%) Onboarding
7 7 (4.96%) Product Ownership
8 6 (4.26%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (3.55%) AI Agents
9 5 (3.55%) FlexPod
9 5 (3.55%) Public Cloud
9 5 (3.55%) Replication
9 5 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (2.84%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (2.13%) Blog
11 3 (2.13%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (2.13%) Cyber Security Posture
11 3 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (2.13%) EMC VMAX
11 3 (2.13%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.64%) Linux
2 11 (7.80%) Windows
3 10 (7.09%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.67%) Data ONTAP
5 7 (4.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (4.26%) CoreOS
6 6 (4.26%) VMS
7 3 (2.13%) AIX
8 2 (1.42%) Android
8 2 (1.42%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (48.23%) DevOps
2 65 (46.10%) CI/CD
3 38 (26.95%) Cybersecurity
4 31 (21.99%) Observability
5 29 (20.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (19.15%) DevSecOps
7 26 (18.44%) AI
8 23 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (16.31%) Stakeholder Management
9 22 (15.60%) Analytics
10 21 (14.89%) Agile
10 21 (14.89%) Containerisation
10 21 (14.89%) Platform Engineering
11 20 (14.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 19 (13.48%) Data Protection
13 18 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (12.77%) Microservices
13 18 (12.77%) Migration
14 17 (12.06%) Test Automation
15 16 (11.35%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 44 (31.21%) Python
2 25 (17.73%) SQL
3 23 (16.31%) Java
4 13 (9.22%) PowerShell
5 9 (6.38%) Bash
6 7 (4.96%) C#
6 7 (4.96%) Shell Script
7 6 (4.26%) Groovy
7 6 (4.26%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.84%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.13%) Bicep
9 3 (2.13%) Go
10 1 (0.71%) Cypher
10 1 (0.71%) Scala
10 1 (0.71%) X++
Qualifications
1 10 (7.09%) Degree
2 9 (6.38%) AWS Certification
3 6 (4.26%) CISSP
4 5 (3.55%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.55%) OCP
4 5 (3.55%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (2.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (2.84%) CCSP
5 4 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.84%) CISM
6 3 (2.13%) CCSK
6 3 (2.13%) NCDA
6 3 (2.13%) NCIE
6 3 (2.13%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.71%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.67%) QA
2 6 (4.26%) NIST
3 5 (3.55%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.42%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.42%) GDPR
4 2 (1.42%) GRC
4 2 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.71%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (19.86%) Docker
2 19 (13.48%) Active Directory
3 12 (8.51%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (7.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (5.67%) vSphere
6 7 (4.96%) NFS
7 6 (4.26%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (2.13%) SRDF
8 3 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.71%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.71%) Ceph
9 1 (0.71%) KVM
9 1 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 51 (36.17%) Kubernetes
2 38 (26.95%) Terraform
3 23 (16.31%) Ansible
4 12 (8.51%) Grafana
4 12 (8.51%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.67%) SnapMirror
6 5 (3.55%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.84%) Kustomize
7 4 (2.84%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (2.13%) Argo
8 3 (2.13%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (1.42%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (1.42%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.42%) SnapVault
9 2 (1.42%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.71%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.71%) Istio
10 1 (0.71%) QRadar
10 1 (0.71%) WMI
Vendors
1 42 (29.79%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.06%) Databricks
3 12 (8.51%) Google
4 10 (7.09%) Red Hat
4 10 (7.09%) VMware
5 8 (5.67%) NetApp
6 7 (4.96%) CyberArk
7 6 (4.26%) Cisco
7 6 (4.26%) Splunk
8 5 (3.55%) OpenAI
9 4 (2.84%) Centrify
9 4 (2.84%) Palo Alto
9 4 (2.84%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.84%) Veeam
10 3 (2.13%) 3PAR
10 3 (2.13%) Aruba
10 3 (2.13%) Brocade
10 3 (2.13%) Dell
10 3 (2.13%) IBM
10 3 (2.13%) Okta